Duffinselache (Duffin's shark) is an extinct genus of basal selachimorph elasmobranchii cartilaginous fish known from the Late Triassic (Rhaetian stage) of England. It was first named by Duffin in 1998 as a species of Polyacrodus. Plamen S. Andreev and Gilles Cuny in 2012 reassigned to its own genus, and its type species is Duffinselache holwellensis.[1]

Duffinselache
Temporal range: Late Triassic, Rhaetian
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Chondrichthyes
Subclass: Elasmobranchii
Subdivision: Selachimorpha
Genus: Duffinselache
Andreev & Cuny, 2012
Type species
Duffinselache holwellensis
(Duffin, 1998 [originally Polyacrodus holwellensis])

References edit

  1. ^ Plamen S. Andreev & Gilles Cuny (2012). "New Triassic stem selachimorphs (Chondrichthyes, Elasmobranchii) and their bearing on the evolution of dental enameloid in Neoselachii". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 32 (2): 255–266. Bibcode:2012JVPal..32..255A. doi:10.1080/02724634.2012.644646. S2CID 84162775.